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—————- The next find out more meeting for our March programme is on Tuesday 23rd February which is in [cntdwn todate=”1 September 2020 23:59″ timeoff=”0″ showhours=”0″ showmins=”0″ pretext=””] Check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting to find out more, see what the meeting involves and, potentially, take that next step to transforming your life and body 🙂
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At the start of last week, we did our monthly Coaching Day assessments.
A week earlier than normal as we’d just started back in the club.
And spread over a few day to allow social distancing.
But back to as close to business as usual as we could be.
As often happens, similar conversations came up a few times.
Around calorie deficits this time.
A few people in a row telling me that they’d been in a calorie deficit and not lost weight.
And giving reasons as to why that might be.
Hormones, age, the menopause, sleep, stress, carbs, processed food and more.
And, whilst these may all factors to be considered……………..
None of them would cause someone in a calorie deficit to not lose weight.
The numbers may change for various reasons.
But the fundamental concept does not.
When kept in laboratory style conditions…………….
Where energy in and out in monitored to an accuracy of +/- 20 calories per day (approximately 99% accurate)……………
Everyone ever tested has lost weight when in a confirmed, sustained energy deficit.
Where that weight comes from (fat, water, muscle, etc) can vary in ratios person to person and can change over time.
What numbers are needed to create a deficit can, and do, change.
But the concept doesn’t.
Our Basal Metabolic Rate (our body’s energy requirements at rest) may drop as we age (mainly down to a change in a our body composition even if we maintain scale weight).
Our activity levels may drop even in we don’t massively feel they have.
Our food consumption might appear, on the face of it to be the same as it always was……………
But has gradually changed over the years.
What was once maintenance for us a few years ago, could quite easily have become a 500 calorie a day surplus without us really noticing.
Approximately 3 1/2 stone weight gain in a year, all else being equal.
When we accept that the numbers may change, but the concept doesn’t…………….
When we fully acknowledge that we will lose weight when in a confirmed average deficit………….
It becomes a different conversation in our head.
We stop being a victim of our circumstances.
We are empowered to make those changes that will take us into that genuine deficit (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you’d like some help doing that. Whilst having fun with like minded people in an intimidation free – and safe – atmosphere).
To maybe figure out what we’re missing.
Why what appears, on paper, to be a deficit, isn’t.
Or not.
We might decide that those (and other) changes have meant that the time and effort involved is now more than we’re willing to invest.
And that’s fine.
Our prerogative.
But it’s always worth remembering that the numbers may change (or just be the wrong ones)…………….
But not the concept.
Much love,
Jon ‘II Rower’ Hall
